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Our North Wales breaking news live blog begins at 06:30am every weekday and 10am at the weekend and is updated throughout the day and into the evening.

9:08pm

David Powell

UPDATE: Well, that's the paper's east and west editions ready for tomorrow. Thanks for checking out our blog too, today. I'll be live blogging here again tomorrow with Kelly Williams. Good night, Nos da.

8:49pm

David Powell

BIN COLLECTIONS: Some people in Gwynedd will only have their bin rubbish collected every three weeks in an attempt to get them to recycle more waste.

8:47pm

David Powell

GIRL HEARS FOR FIRST TIME: Watch the wonderful moment when Amelie Ring, of Flintshire, hears for the first time thanks to the cochlear implants doctors gave her.

8:42pm

David Powell

FERRY DISASTER: Shocking news about the ferry accident. More than 280 passengers are missing more than 24 hours after their ferry flipped onto its side and filled with water off the southern coast of South Korea. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

8:41pm

David Powell

RHYDIAN ROBERTS: Saw Rhydian Roberts singing in Italian on the telly earlier. Looks like he's got an album out. Great voice.

8:11pm

David Powell

Had such a great day. Thank you to my team and all the kindness shown today by all who came to say hello xx pic.twitter.com/8HV9dTTyjA

ROAD ACCIDENT: A North Wales fire and rescue service spokesman said a crew from Blaenau Ffestiniog had to make one of the vehicles safe.

8:07pm

David Powell

ROAD ACCIDENT: There was a man, a woman and a child in one car, and a man in the other vehicle. It isn't known which was the casualty but paramedics treated them at the scene.

8:05pm

David Powell

ROAD ACCIDENT: I've got more details about that road accident now. One person has suffered minor injuries in a two-car crash tonight in Llan Ffestiniog in Gwynedd at about 7pm. North Wales Police, firefighters and paramedics have been called to the incident.

8:02pm

David Powell

TRAFFIC: Vaughan Street will be closed to vehicles from its junction with Conway Road round to Trinity Avenue. Diversions will be in place.

There will be no access to/from Augusta Street or Oxford Road via Vaughan Street during this work.

Conwy CB Council apologises for any inconvenience caused by the resurfacing work.

8pm

David Powell

TRAFFIC: Work to resurface Vaughan Street in Llandudno will start on April 28 and is expected to take about four nights (weather permitting).Work will take place at night to minimise disruption to town centre traffic and residents are asked not to park their vehicles in the road between 7pm and 7am each night.

7:01pm

David Powell

ROAD ACCIDENT: We're getting reports of a road accident in Llan Ffestiniog a short while ago. Firefighters are at the scene. We'll bring you more when we have it.

6:33pm

David Powell

FERRY DISASTER: The toll was expected to jump amid fears that more than 270 missing passengers - many secondary school students - were dead. Coastguard officials put the number of survivors at 179.

6:26pm

David Powell

FERRY DISASTER: Twenty people, including a female crew member, at least five students and two teachers, were confirmed dead by coastguards.

6:24pm

David Powell

FERRY DISASTER: Meanwhile, the coastguard said it was investigating whether the ferry’s captain was one of the first ones off the sinking ship.

6:23pm

David Powell

FERRY DISASTER: An immediate evacuation order was not issued for the ferry that sank off South Korea with scores of people trapped inside, because officers were trying to stabilise the vessel after it started to list amid confusion and chaos, a crew member says.

6:21pm

Liam Randall

FERRY DISASTER: Abroad now, and the news from South Korea about the ferry disaster gets worse and worse.

5.53pm

Liam Randall

Deliberate fires are being started in the #Hawarden area, Gladstone playing fields.I will be on patrol there tonight in the area #NoFires RT

NUCLEAR WASTE: Nuclear waste will not be dumped on Anglesey, say councillors keen to quell fears inspired by meetings on radioactive waste management.

The Committee on Radioactive Waste Management will visit Anglesey in September during a series of events around the UK.

The local authority has "categorically" stated that it has no interest in making Anglesey a site for nuclear waste, while the island’s AM expressed his firm opposition to creating a “nuclear waste depository”.

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Mark Thoma

Liverpool-born Mark joined the Daily Post in January 2014 after seven years as editor of its Merseyside sister title the Liverpool Post. He started out as a weekly news reporter on Wirral Newspapers, and spent seven years at the Daily Post and Liverpool Echo. He was The Press Association's regional correspondent for North Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire from 1983 to 1997, before returning to the ECHO as deputy news editor. He has won a number of journalism awards, including the UK Press Gazzette Regional Reporter of the Year award, and in 1993 wrote a book on the James Bulger murder.